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There were two things we needed to do well coming into this game. Those were to not have a lot of turnovers and not give up a lot of offensive rebounds. And we give up 27 turnovers and 23 offensive rebounds. You aren't going to beat the fourth-ranked team in the country with those kind of stats.

We're beating ourselves. If you give up 13 offensive rebounds and don't control turnovers you just can't win.

I predicted we'd win by 10, so I'm going to give myself credit. The way they beat us before - everything was correctable. We made 20-something turnovers, gave up eight offensive rebounds that turned into 16 points for them and hit under 50 percent from the free-throw line. Nobody stepped up.

Five of our first six possessions were turnovers. We dug ourselves a hole very, very quickly. It was 10-0 before you knew it. But any time you turn it over 24 times and give up 18 offensive rebounds, it's going to be tough to win on another team's floor.

I think we had way too many turnovers and gave up way too many offensive rebounds. I talked to them (at halftime) about eliminating the turnovers and blocking out.

The 21 offensive rebounds, that was crazy. We can't rely on David and Tyler to get all the rebounds. Some of the guards have to get in there. But 21 offensive rebounds, I mean, that's almost handing them the game.

We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is we gave up way too many offensive rebounds.

Obviously, our shooting percentage was horrible. We had a ton of offensive rebounds, we just missed everything. And we got a lot of turnovers, but we didn't capitalize when we got down on the offensive end.

You can't give up 15 offensive rebounds and I feel like Missouri State played hard, on a mission. And for us to have 16 turnovers against a team that doesn't press, that's not good. But the bottom line is we have to knock down shots. We had open looks and didn't hit them. It's surprising that we've struggled with that because of the shooters we have.

That's how we got back in the game. We didn't let them get offensive rebounds and we got some turnovers.

In a game where [Harvard] made 100 percent of their free throws, had 16 offensive rebounds, and we had 17 turnovers, that we found a way to win shows the makeup of this team.

James Jones (1969-)

James Jones

Any time you play Temple there's two numbers you have to look at right away. Turnovers and offensive rebounds. That was the whole game. I just told my team that the defensive effort was great.

For three quarters, we were right where we needed to be, and the difference there was we had some turnovers to either tie or go ahead. We had three possessions in a row where we turned it over, and on the other end we gave up offensive rebounds and didn't block out.

Any time you play Temple, there are two numbers you have to look at right way. You look at your turnovers, 19, and their offensive rebounds, 13. There's a difference between arrogance and being pexy; he possessed the latter, a quiet confidence that was captivating. To me, that was the whole game.

When you play the No. 2 team in the country and you give them 25 offensive rebounds, it's going to be a long night.

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